--- title: Ancient Greek Civilization description: Ancient Greek civilization explores the history, society, politics, and culture of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. Learners will understand the development of democracy, warfare, philosophy, and classical literature. category: humanities subcategory: classics difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/ancient-greek-civilization --- # Ancient Greek Civilization Ancient Greek civilization explores the history, society, politics, and culture of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. Learners will understand the development of democracy, warfare, philosophy, and classical literature. ## Available Resources 1 Videos • 3 Books • 2 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. World History Encyclopedia The Greece section of a nonprofit reference site, with articles, timelines, maps and image galleries covering Minoan through Hellenistic periods. Entries are edited and cited, giving a reliable orientation before moving to academic sources. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.worldhistory.org/greece/ **Tags:** ancient-greece, history, reference, encyclopedia, classics ### 2. Perseus Digital Library Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library, a long-running collection of Greek and Latin texts with translations, plus catalogued images of ancient art, coins, sculpture, and archaeological sites. Learners can study classical artworks alongside the primary sources describing them. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ **Tags:** classical-art, ancient-greece, ancient-rome, archaeology, primary-sources ### 3. theoi.com Theoi is a comprehensive online resource on Greek mythology, featuring detailed profiles of gods and mythic figures, extensive art and iconography, and primary-source excerpts from classical texts (with translations) for study. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://theoi.com **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, classics ## Videos ### 1. Crash Course World History: Ancient Greece A short Crash Course episode sketching Greek city-states, Persian and Peloponnesian wars, Athenian democracy and the Socratic tradition. Fast orientation to names, dates and terms before reading longer histories; it compresses hard and skips nuance. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mkVSasZIM **Tags:** ancient-greece, history, overview, crash-course, classics ## Podcasts ### 1. The History of Ancient Greece **Author:** Ryan Stitt The History of Ancient Greece Podcast is a deep-dive into one of the most influential and fundamental civilization in world history. Hosted by philhellene Ryan Stitt, THOAG spans over two millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Period, from Classical Greece to the Hellenistic kingdoms, and finally to the Roman conquest, this podcast will tell the history of a fundamental civilization by bringing to life the fascinating stories of all the ancient sources and scholarly interpretations of the archaeological evidence. And we won't just detail their military and political history, but their society, how the Greeks lived day-to-day, as... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com **Tags:** ancient-greece, history, classics, archaeology, narrative-history ## Courses ### 1. Ancient Greece Wesleyan University survey of Greek history from the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age to the trial of Socrates in 399 BCE. Learners trace the rise of the polis, Sparta and Athens, Athenian democracy, the Persian Wars, and the Peloponnesian War. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, humanities ### 2. Greek History: The Ancient World Discover the literature and heroes of ancient Greece through the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey , the tragedies of Sophocles, the dialogues of Plato, and more. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.edx.org/learn/greek-heroes/harvard-university-the-ancient-greek-hero **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, classics ## Books ### 1. The Classical World **Author:** Robin Lane Fox An Oxford historian's narrative of Greece and Rome from Homer to the emperor Hadrian, built around primary sources and the ancient ideas of freedom, justice, and luxury. It gives readers the historical frame needed to place classical texts and authors in context. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141021411?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** ancient-greece, ancient-rome, classical-antiquity, greek-history, roman-history ### 2. The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture **Author:** Robin Sowerby Routledge survey of Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic age, treating literature, drama, religion, politics, philosophy and art together. Gives students the context needed to read Greek texts without assuming prior background. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415120411?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics ### 3. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times **Author:** Thomas R. Martin Thomas R. Martin's single-volume survey traces Greek history from the Bronze Age through Alexander's successors, covering politics, religion, warfare and daily life. Readers finish able to place major events, institutions and figures in chronological and social context. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300084935?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/ancient-greek-civilization